Microsoft PowerPoint has been utilized for years to create powerful presentation slides. This software application is so easy to use and it provides many comfortable features to users. So the users simply design and create the presentation without bothering what presentation file format was used to save their presentation. They simply double-click on the file and the PowerPoint intelligently recognizes the file format and opens it by establishing the necessary environment.
Is M4A better than MP3?
Both M4A and MP3 are audio-only file formats. Although we listen to music, audiobooks or podcasts, on daily bases but most of us are not well familiar with the format of these audios. MP3 and M4A are two kinds of formats which are used commonly in our daily life. Commonly, we have to choose one format for our music, audiobooks, or others. But, we don’t know what are MP3 and M4A?
What Executable File Types are Commonly used?
The Executable file types are special formats or simply text scripts, which can be run directly by the computer operating systems. These files are usually created from the source code of a programming language and usually non-readable, non-editable and created by a compiler in binary format. This article provides the knowledge about the common executable file formats used now a days.
BAT file format CGI file format COM file format EXE file format MSI file format BAT file format BAT file format consists of a script included to automate sequences of command iteratively.
Sentiment Classification (Analysis) in C#
Various online sentiment classification services are available now. Such giants as Google, Amazon, or Microsoft offer their cloud solutions for natural language processing. But if you do not plan to pay 1-2$ for 1000 API calls (price increases when the review has more than 1000 characters) and/or are ready to prepare your local classification service or program, then you can use offline classifiers. There are several .NET classifiers for the offline case that will be discussed in this post.
Three Open-Source .NET APIs for Word Processing Documents
To automate the manipulation of documents within our applications we need some reliable APIs. The market offers both Open Source Software (OSS) and Closed Source Softwares (CSS) to work with Word Processing Documents. Closed source APIs are often costly. There are a bunch of free APIs available with both basic and advanced features, following are a few of them:
Open XML SDK NPOI FileFormat.Words for .NET Getting Started with Free APIs Let’s get started with the installation and basic usage of APIs.
Create a Word Document using PHPWord
PHPWord is a powerful open-source API, written in PHP to create and read file-formats including DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, HTML, and PDF. Using the API you can create a document, set document properties, insert images, insert charts and more. Let’s get started with creating a simple DOCX file using PHPWord.
Pre-Requisites To create a word document using the PHPWord you need the following resources installed in your operating system:
PHP version 5.
Getting Started with Apache POI – Java API for Documents
Ofttimes, we need to automate our processes and manipulate the documents programmatically. We need to create documents in bulk, read, process, and save the resultant documents. We need to work with a bunch of different file formats simultaneously. Luckily, for Java developers, we have an open-source API to work with Word, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Email, and Diagram file-formats – Apache POI. This cross-platform API is designed to work with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) based languages.
Difference Between XLS and XLSX
XLS and XLSX extensions represent popular Excel file formats that were introduced by Microsoft as part of its Office suite over a period of time. XLS being the oldest and widely used file type is also known to be the Excel97-2003 file format. The XLSX file format was introduced as a replacement of XLS file type with the launch of Excel 2007. Common users may not know the underlying differences between the two file formats, however, XLS is different than XLSX file format in several ways as detailed below.
Excel File Formats: XLSX, XLSM, XLS, XLTX, XLTM
A file with XLSX, XLSM, XLS, XLTX or XLTM extension is a Microsoft Excel file that uses specific standard file format. You can show or display file extension on Windows OS from Folder Options. MS Excel lets you save files in any of these file formats using the Save As option. These Excel file formats serve different purposes for working with Spreadsheet files as explained in this article.
In addition to standard file formats, Excel indirectly uses other file formats as well for a set of different operations.
Markup Language File Formats – A Survey
A markup language is a computer language that separates the elements of a document by tags. Unlike programming languages, it is in human-readable format and can be opened with almost all text editors. For its nature of defining elements by tags, such a file allows definition of wide range of elements. These tags doesn’t have anything to do with the graphical representation of the data, nor they are used to specify user defined settings such as fonts, dimensions, etc.